Happy Christmas Eve! - A Little Place for Memories

Happy Christmas Eve!
I hope you have a few moments to yourself today before the joys of tomorrow are upon you.
I'm sharing a last minute extra gift that I have made for my Nana. She is 95 and 4500 miles away from me but still in the forefront of my mind everyday.
This little envelope album is going to be filled with photos of her Great Grandchildren from this Christmas and will be winging its way to her next week as a little extra cheer for the New Year.
Make sure you scroll to the bottom of the post to find the winner of my Christmas Candy!

Challenges:
Tuesday Taggers - Anything Goes
Auds Sentiments - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes (2 entries only)
My Mums Craft Shop - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Anything Goes - Anything But A Card
Hand Stamped Sentiments - Unique Folds
Wags N Whiskers - Fancy Folds
Simply Magnolia - Christmas
Raise The Bar - Christmas
Crafty Boots - Christmas
Paper Play - Christmas

Project Recipe:
Image - Tilda with Hellebores
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Mrs Claus's Kitchen by DCWV
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Stickers - Martha Stewart and The Paper Studio

Have a wonderful Christmas and for one lucky person it will be a little bit more wonderful as they are the winner of the $20 Gift Certificate to Michelle's Scrapbooking and that is........ Lucky number.....19!!!Lindsay!!!
Please send me an email through the link in my sidebar.

Merry Christmas!
Katie

Christmas Candy Giveaway! - Merry Christmas Vintage Tilda

Happy Friday Everyone!
Are you all busy with wrapping up those last minute gifts? Well maybe it's time for a gift for yourself.
Today I have a festive giveaway that just needs a few clicks!
The randomly drawn winner will get a $20 Gift Certificate to Michelle's Scrapbooking and More!.



Whether you like Copic Markers, Pixie Cottage and Magnolia Stamps, super 6" by 6" paper pads or Prima flowers you are sure to find something to spend your GC on.
Just enjoy my card and then add your details to the InLinkz below.
The link will close at 11.59pm on December 23rd and I will announce the winner here on Christmas Eve December 24th.

Challenges:
Simply Magnolia - Christmas
Magnolia Mania - Oh Christmas Tree
Bunny Zoe's - Fancy Folds
Crazy Challenge - More Than One Fold
Wags N Whiskers - Fancy Folds
Cutie Pie - Use a Sentiment
Whoopsi Daisy - Shimmer and Shine
Cupcake Crafts - Glitter, Shimmer etc
Crafty Creations - Embossing and Glitter
Crafty Boots - Christmas
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas
Paper Play - Christmas
Creative Stamp Friends - Christmas
Hooked On Crafts - Christmas
Dream Valley - Christmas
Lets Ink It Up - Christmas
Gingerloft - Christmas or Winter
Creative Card Crew - Tis The Season
Stamp and Create - Vintage
My Time To Craft - Vintage Christmas
Papertake Weekly - I'm Dreaming of a "Green and Red Vintage" Christmas
I Copic - Holidays
Kaboodle Doodles - Together for the Holidays
Scrapmaster - Color Combo (Lucky Limeade, Cherry Cobbler and Sahara Sand)
Come and Get It - Red, Green and another color (I chose cream)

Card Recipe:
Image - Tilda with Hellebores
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Wonder by Authentique
Poinsettias - K and Co
Sentiment - The Paper Studio
Fence Die - My Favorite Things
Fir Tree Die - Accucut
House Die - Dayco
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Chipboard Border - Recollections
Pearls - Liquid Pearls in White Opal
Glitter - Glamour Dust

So just add your link below and pass on the word to all your friends!
Katie

100,000 Hit BLOG CANDY!

WINNER!!!! is #64 and that is Ms Peterson!!!. I used Random.org but try as I might I couldn't get the image to save on my computer so i don't have the screen shot, sorry :(
Ms Peterson please contact me through the link on my sidebar and thanks to everyone for entering! If I don't hear from you in a week I will redraw, thanks for understanding.



UPDATED 5/20 - WOW!!! Now over 500 followers, thanks so much for joining in the fun!
The Candy will close on schedule on Monday so be sure to check back to see who won.
Keep spreading the word, over 10 more links needed to get to 100 when I'll add more to the prize pot!




I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for coming back so many times to see my work.
It feels great to part of such a welcoming and warm community and I love to visit all your blogs too.
To celebrate reaching 100,000 hits and almost 450 followers I have a little giveaway for you.

The candy consists of:

7 sheets of Basic Grey Rub On's in black and white in different themes
Chipboard flowers and butterflies, felted and with rhinestones
2 sets of clear stamps
Coasters for altering
Small wooden photo frame perfect for altering too
Mini scrapbook
Set of gift cards with envelopes
Set of chipboard letters
Wood mounted rubber stamp of a Dress Form
Over-sized wooden clothes pin for altering

There are a few rules for winning but nothing too bad :)

1. Become a follower if you aren't already. You can choose to follow on Blogger or Facebook or both.
2. Add my main candy photo to your sidebar with a link back to here. Or you can make a post about it, either works :)
3. Add your name to the Inlinkz gadget below.

The candy is open world wide and will end at Midnight CST on May 23rd.
I hope you will spread the word and with each 100 entries I will add more to the pot!
Have fun and thanks again for all your support.

100K Blog Candy Alert!!! - Coming Soon, just advance warning!

I can't believe it but I've passed the 100K mark in hits and have over 400 followers.
I think it's only fair to give all my loyal viewers a chance to get something for coming back time and time again and visiting me.
This week I'll be making a Blog Candy post and I hope you'll come back each day to see what it is.
I can't guarantee what day it will be but it will be this week and I hope you will all come back and join in the fun.
To win you will have to be a follower so if you aren't already be sure to sign up, using Blogger or Facebook, and you'll be in with a chance if you follow the other simple rules.
Come back soon and find out all the details!
Have a great rest of your Sunday!
Katie

Blog Candy winner! (and a DT call final reminder!)

Sorry I'm so late revealing the name, it has taken me longer than usual to get back to having so many feet running around me all day! LOL

Anyway, my candy was won by #10 Stephanie!
Please contact me through the side bar with your details for me to send it off to you.

Also I am still running a Design Team call at my challenge blog Cooking It Up With Katie and wanted to make sure everyone who wanted to apply has done as I'm almost ready to announce the results.
Thanks so much to everyone that applied.
Have a great rest of your day and be sure to come back tomorrow for 2 new cards!

50K Hits so it's time to PARTY!!!

Happy Monday everyone!!
I can't believe it, at the end of this month I will have been blogging for a year and last Friday I passed the 50,000th hit here! I can't believe how many of you keep coming and looking at my work and each day I feel blessed by you all.
To celebrate I'm going to have a little candy for you :)
To be in with a chance to win all you have to do is leave your name and a link to your blog in the gadget at the end of this post.
If you'd like to add my candy and a link to your sidebar you can do, the more players we have the more fun it is :) but you'll still be entered if you don't.
This is what you could win:





4 wood mounted stamps
2 sets of chipboard letters
Sentiment stamp by The Pixie Cottage
Chipboard coasters
30 roses by Wild Orchid Crafts
Set of Tiny Type letter stickers

Now obviously I couldn't blog without a card and this one has a message for all of you that have been with me through the last year:

I Love Digi - Thank You card
ABC - T is for Thank You
Color Dare - Old Olive, Summer Sun, Certainly Celery and Very Vanilla
Lili Of The Valley - Here Comes Summer
Sweet Stampin - It's Summertime
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
Stampin Royalty - Use Your Punches
Creative Card Crew - April Showers bring May Flowers
Cutie Stampers - Flowers
Alota Rubber Stamps - Flowers
Beary Scrap - May Flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Buttons, Bows and Bling
Handfull of Stamps - Look What I Got (new stash, the BG paper)
Alphabet Challenge - A is for Animals
Allsorts - Animals
Just Cute Bears - Buttons and Bows (and a bear)



Card Recipe:
Image - Meljens Designs Freebie
Paper - Basic Grey Origins
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Medium - Copic Markers
Rhinestones - Michaels $1 spot
Trim - Joanns
Buttons - Spare Parts by Hobby Lobby





I thought this was the perfect image to say how I feel about all the support you've all given me over the past year and please add your name and link below to be a part of my candy.
The link gadget will stay open for 2 weeks so get your entry in by May 17th for a chance to win.
Good luck!!!



Katie

Want to know the answers? And were YOU the winner?

Happy Friday,
I hope you enjoyed the little contest I had with my "House that Tilda Built".
The answers are (with links to as many as I could find)
1.Tilda In Spring Rain
2.Love Tilda
3.Tilda With Wine and Basket
4.Stylish Tilda
5.Tilda With Watering Can
6.Patches Tilda (also known as Tilda with Heart Jumper)
7.Peachy Tilda
8.Jam Tilda
9.Standing Fall Tilda
10.Kitchen Tilda
11.Easter Tilda
12.Giggling Tilda
13.Tilda With Ice Cream
14.Unwrapped Tilda
15.Tilda With Balloons

I only linked so you can see what the whole stamp looks like, I'm not suggesting any of the sites above are better than each other, I just found ones that had the stamp on their site right now.
Diana at Magnolialicious can usually get any of the stamps, she's the largest selection in the US.

And the winner of the candy is Sheng!.
Be sure to email me with your address and I'll get your package out to you.
Thanks for joining in and be sure to come back later today for a card featuring the cutest Cupid I've ever seen!
Katie

Blog Candy Winner!!!

Hi Everyone,
Sorry to keep you wating.
I've been so busy with team stuff this week that I didn't want the winner to "buried" by other posts.
So drumroll please.......the winner of my 20000 hit candy is........comment number.....#8......Karen Arthur!!!!!!
So Karen, just drop me an email (the link is at the top of my right sidebar) and I'll get your goodies on their way to you!
And, just so no one feels left out I have some more candy news.
Since I posted about 20K hits I've had almost another 3500 hits and I can't believe it! We have just 7 weeks to go until Christmas and if we keep at this amount of hits then I'll be at 40K or even more!
So I'll start gathering together a super bunch of candy for you and as soon as we hit 40K (and I'd like 200 followers but that's not manditory) I'll have another chance to win!
So you can help me there quicker, and get closer to the chance to win, by visiting me as often as you can and adding my blog to your links so more will come and we'll soon be at the next giveaway level!
I post new cards/projects almost every day so there is always lots to see so it will be fun for all of us to race towards that next goal!
Have a great rest of your week.
Katie

20000 hit blog candy!!

This post will stay at the top until October 31st so PLEASE SCROLL DOWN for my new posts! Thanks!!

Happy Thursday Everyone!
Yesterday at about 8am I saw that I had my 20,000th hit on my blog!
I can't believe in less than 5 short months I've found so much support from people I never knew before!
On May 27th I posted the first two cards to my blog and now there are probably close to 100!
I've gone from trying a few challenges to being a little "obsessed" and trying to find more and more to add to my cards everyday!
And I even started my own challenge blog at Cooking It Up With Katie
I've even made it on to some Design Teams which enable me to continue crafting every day!
So I had a blog candy planned for my birthday new month but I'm going to bring it forward and start it today.
All you have to do is leave a comment and if you could pass the message on your blog too I'd love it!
I promise it will be worth it for you ;)
Here are the goodies waitng to come to that special person who wins.


The winner will receive:
Paper Trends magazine
2 1/2" set of Chipboard Letters
2 Luggage tag holders (perfect for altering)
2 sets of 3D Christmas embellishments
3 sets of Studio G stamps (included a new Christmas one!)
KI Memories Jellie Embellishments
Set of 8 embossed cards and envelopes


I'll be making the draw on November 1st from all the comments left before the Witching Hour (midnight) on Halloween.
So leave a comment below and pass on the message so more can join in the fun!
If by any chance I get more than 100 comments I'll add more to the Candy so it's an incentive to pass on the fun!
Katie

Blog Candy Winner!!!

Hello Everyone!
I know you've all been waiting patiently for the results and it took a little longer than I expected!
I went to everyones blog to see if you added a link/photo and if you did you got an extra entry, I checked you were a follower and I loved looking at everyones wonderful creations!
And after all that I gave everyone an entry into the fish bowl and when we pulled the name is was.......
Sharron aka Sharrahug!!!!!!!
Congrats Sharron and just email me with your details and I'll get the envie mailed out and on it's way to you!

Thanks to everyone that joined in the fun and I hope you'll keep coming back as who knows when I'll have another giveaway or some super news for you!
Have a great day!
Katie

What a Week! Now it's your turn for a prize :)

Happy Saturday,
This week has been a whirlwind and a wonderful one at that!
On Sunday I got the Sweet Sprinkles award from Pile It On for my plaque I made for Carter.
On Monday Dalis and Vicki from Pile It On asked me to join the Design Team full time and not just as a guest in October.
Then on Tuesday the same plaque won the 1st place at The Pink Elephant!
On Wednesday I squeezed in an entry to Victoria Case Challenges and it won! It means I get to be a guest of their team for next weeks challenge.
On Thursday I applied to be a DT member at The Pixie Cottage and although it's not a win it's a good thing just to apply!
Then Friday brought the motherload!
I won the blog candy at LaLa Land Crafts , then Use It Challenges chose my piece (albeit randomly ;)) and I get to host the challenge next week and finally Scrappy Frogs drew my name to win for last weeks challenge!

So it was a good week to do a drawing from the wonderful people who have signed up as a follower so far.
I was going to do the drawing today but I know with the upcoming Holiday and Back to School stuff that many of my readers haven't been around this week so I'm going to do the drawing on Wednesday from everyone that has signed up.
What will you win?
Here is the Blog Candy that could be winging your way!

Stop teasing us Katie you cry!!
Well I grabbed a Flat Rate envie and stuffed it with as many goodies as I could.
What are you getting....... here goes!

Paper Trends magazine
Simple Scrapbooks mini scrapbook kit
Chipboard shapes
Heidi Swapp Ghost stars and snowflakes
Autumn Leaves stamps
Studio G stamps
Felt Flowers
Brides Confetti Flowers
Embossed notecards and envelopes

If you add a photo to your blog side bar or post as well as signing up you'll get two entries into the draw. Be sure to leave a comment so I know you've added the deets!
Good luck and pass on the message!

Now if you've come for the Tilda card here she is!
It seems ages since I've inked up a Magnolia stamp as I've been so busy with digi's and it was a nice chance last night to go back to basics.

This Tilda can be got at Magnolia Stamps and she's such a cutie.
I decided to do a Fall theme as I love the colors and I think she looks lovely in her mustard jeans!
The dp are just fom my stash, mainly DCWV and the flowers are Brides.
I use the sketch over at Just Magnolia and I love it!
The Secret Saturday Crafter wanted Hearts and Flowers and I squeezed them in to my design :)
Also Stamp Something wanted you to use your favorite stamp and although I love all Tilda's this is one of my favorites.
Now I know I'm pushing it a little but I wanted this to fit with the challenge at Magnolia Down Under too. The challenge was 1 flower (I used 3), 2 ribbons (Tilda has ribbon in her hair and on her hat!, I told you I pushing the limits! LOL), 3 brads (in the flower centers) and 4 dp (that was easy)

The inside is more dp and a coordinating message mat.

Be sure to remember to sign up as a follower and mention this on your blog and you could be the winner come next Wednesday!
Have a great Saturday and be sure to check back tomorrow for my first card for the Pile It On team.

Katie

Some Super blog candy from Jacque

The fabulously talened Jacque is offering a huge blog candy to celebrate both her birthday and her 3 month blogiversary!
All the deets can found here and while your there be sure check out all her wonderful work, she is a super cardmaker and a super nice person too!
Happy Birthday Jacque!
Katie